Baker's Percentage & Pizza Dough Calculator
Calculate Stage 1 pre-ferment (Poolish, Biga, or Sourdough Starter) and Stage 2 main dough weights with automatic flour and water deduction, dual gram + teaspoon micro-weights, a 2% bowl-waste buffer, and reverse remaining-flour scaling.
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Dough targets & pre-ferment setup
Total Flour = 100% · Pre-ferment flour & water are automatically deducted from Stage 2
Reverse mode · What can I make with my remaining flour?
Enter leftover flour (e.g. 680 g) to see exact dough balls, weights, water, salt, and yeast
Fermentation environment
Predicts optimal yeast or starter dosage for your temperature & time
How Two-Stage Pre-ferment Deduction & Micro-Unit Approximations Work
In Baker's Math, Total Flour = 100%. When you ferment 30% of your flour in Stage 1 at 100% hydration, Stage 1 uses A = Total_Flour × 0.30 of flour and C = A × 1.00 of water.
In Stage 2 (Tomorrow), we deduct both from your main mixing bowl: B = Total_Flour − A and D = Total_Water − C. Because (C + D) / (A + B) = 65.0%, changing your poolish, biga, or sourdough percentage never distorts your final dough hydration.
Micro-ingredient tsp approximations: Kitchen teaspoons vary by grind and packing density. We display volume approximations alongside exact gram weights using standard culinary benchmarks: 1 tsp fine salt ≈ 6.0 g, 1 tsp instant dry yeast ≈ 3.2 g, 1 tsp granulated sugar ≈ 4.2 g, and 1 tsp honey ≈ 7.0 g.
Stage 1 (Tonight) & Stage 2 (Tomorrow) Mixing Cards
For 6 × 260g balls = 1,560g net × 1.02 (+2.0% waste buffer) = 1,591g scaled
Ingredient weight share & baker's ratio
Horizontal CSS bar chart showing each ingredient's % share of total dough weight
| Stage / Ingredient | Baker's % | Weight (g) | Approx. Volume (tsp) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 (Poolish) · Flour (A) | 30.0% | 280.5 g | Weigh on scale |
| Stage 1 (Poolish) · Water (C) | 30.0% | 280.5 g | At 100% hydr. |
| Stage 1 · Instant Dry Yeast (0.1% of A) | 0.03% | 0.28 g | ≈ 0.09 tsp (1 tsp ≈ 3.2g) |
| Stage 2 Main Dough · Remaining Flour (B) | 70.0% | 654.4 g | Total flour = 934.9 g |
| Stage 2 Main Dough · Remaining Water (D) | 35.0% | 327.2 g | Total water = 607.7 g |
| Stage 2 · Fine Sea Salt | 2.50% | 23.4 g | ≈ 3.90 tsp (1 tsp ≈ 6g) |
| Stage 2 · Olive Oil / Fat | 1.50% | 14.0 g | Liquid fat |
| Stage 2 · Sugar / Diastatic Malt | 0.50% | 4.7 g | ≈ 1.11 tsp (1 tsp ≈ 4.2g) |
| Stage 2 · Honey | 0.50% | 4.7 g | ≈ 0.67 tsp (1 tsp ≈ 7g) |
| Stage 2 · Remaining Instant Dry Yeast | 0.17% | 1.59 g | ≈ 0.50 tsp (1 tsp ≈ 3.2g) |
| Total dough (×1.02 buffer) | 170.2% | 1,591.2 g | Net: 1,560 g |
What people hate about the other tools
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My understanding of poolish (having watched Vito's video I admit it was abit confusing to understand %poolish). Anyway this is how I work out poolish.
In this toolAuto-deducts preferment flour and water into clear Stage 1 (Poolish/Biga/Levain) and Stage 2 mixing cards.Also PizzApp doesn't have an option for honey. Do I need honey for a poolish using instant dry yeast?
In this toolIncludes dedicated slots for honey, diastatic malt, oil, and custom multi-flour blends locked to 100%.I always use for 70% hydration and 4 * 260g dough balls (there's a lot of waste so the real size will usually be around 245g)
In this toolAdds a one-click 0%–5% bowl waste compensation toggle so final portioned dough balls hit exact target weight.
One-line difference: Two-stage Poolish/Biga/Sourdough auto-deduction calculator with dual-temp yeast curve, honey/multi-flour slots, and waste buffer.
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- Reverse flour scaling, multi-flour blends, honey slots & waste buffer
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